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Re: perl script, permission denied

From: Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller(at)courtesan.com>
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 12:29:10 EST

route(8) checks the real uid, not the effective uid. If you make your perl script set the real uid to the effective it will work.

I would expect the following to work:

$< = $>;

If not, you can use POSIX::setuid()

Received on Fri Jan 31 12:30:30 2003

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